Ear Nose Throat J. 2015 Sep;94(9):376-7.
Pleomorphic sarcoma is an uncommon neoplasm in the head and neck now that refinements in diagnostic techniques have more accurately classified tumors that used to be placed in this category.
FIRST PARAGRAPH: ‘Pleomorphic sarcoma’ is the World Health Organization’s preferred term for malignant fibrous histiocytoma. This high-grade pleomorphic malignant mesenchymal neoplasm is a diagnosis of exclusion after other sarcomas and pleomorphic neoplasms have been excluded by histochemistry, immunohistochemistry, electron microscopy, and/or molecular evaluation. Most of these tumors arise de novo, but postradiation tumors are not uncommon. To be considered as a postradiation tumor, the tumor must be located in the radiation field and it must develop at least 3 years after radiation in an area that was free of tumor before radiation.
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